The FCC even publishes the following warning on its website: “We remind consumers that it is against federal law to use a phone jammer or similar device that intentionally blocks, blocks, or interferes with authorized radio communications. , such as cell phones, police radar, GPS, and Wi-Fi. Despite claims by some merchants, consumers cannot legally use signal jammer in the United States, nor can retailers legally sell them. "
The fines are no joke, a man in Florida in 2014 was fined $ 48,000 for using a jammer to prevent other drivers from standing by his phone, a truck driver who worked around La Guardia airport was fined nearly $ 32,000 and fired GPS Jammer so his boss could not track him. He had accidentally interfered with airport communications.
A computer scientist in Chicago who wanted peace on his train ride was sent to jail until he could pay $ 10,000 bail on a $ 100,000 fine while awaiting trial for using a jammer. A school in Dallas was fined $ 25,000 for signal blocking.
